December 03, 2015
Thursday, 1st Week of
Advent 1st Reading: Is 26:1–6 Gospel: Mt 7:21, 24–27
Jesus said to his disciples, “Not everyone who says to me: Lord! Lord! will enter the kingdom of hea-ven, but the one who does the will of my heavenly Father. “So, then, anyone who hears these words of mine and acts accordingly is like a wise man, who built his house on rock. The rain poured, the rivers flooded, and the wind blew and struck that house, but it did not collapse because it was built on rock.
But anyone who hears these words of mine and does not act accordingly, is like a fool who built his house on sand. The rain poured, the rivers floo-ded, and the wind blew and struck that house; it collapsed, and what a terrible fall that was!”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE (Daily Gospel in the
Assimilated Life
Experience)
“A love and a cough cannot be hidden”, wrote George Herbert in “JaculaPrudentum”. One may keep his yawning unnoticed in public by keeping his jawsas close to each other as possible. But no one can cough publicly in secret. In fact, doctors say that holding cough back can cause death. Love too, if ac-ted upon, cannot be hidden. Since action speaks louder than words, how can one hide genuine love? If one can die if he withholds coughing, love can also die if it cannot burst into action. Try repea-ting “love” at least three times, and check if you don’t sound like saying “blah, blah, blah”. Lip service does not makesense because love is the language of the hands, not of the lips. Love put into words may be music to the ears, but when it fails to ripen into action it leaves a badtaste in the mouth.
God translated his love into action when he ordained his Son to take on human flesh. The manner of dying for the beloved is an unimpeachable measure of the lover’s love. The way Jesus died makes us realize that his love for us is without measure. His extended arms nailed to the cross point as far to the left and as far to the right as eyes can see – an awesome illustration of the depth and breadth and height of his love for huma-nity. Calvary established two things: the extent of God’s love, and how far we can goin responding to that love. Calvary is the apex of ge-nuine love, and it is the only place we can meet God halfway. Protestants won’t like this idea because their ‘solafide’ doctrine does not require a person to do any work to be saved. But even if good works were unnecessary for salvation, genuine love would compel us to do concrete acts for God, for as one dies if cough is not allowed to burst out from one’s bosom, love can die if not put into action. Let us keep our love for God alive!-Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email:[email protected]. Website: www.frdan.org.
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